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3263) The tainted relic
Author
Pub. Date
℗2006, ©2005.
Language
English
Description
"July 1100 and Jerusalem has fallen to the Crusader armies. Amid the ensuing chaos a priceless holy relic is entrusted to English knight Geoffrey Mappestone. But the relic is said to be cursed, bringing death and destruction to whoever posesses it. And down the ages the relic continues to wreak its havoc."--Container.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"What if young Arthur Conan Doyle really went to a secret school for extraordinarily gifted children called Baskerville Hall? When a mysterious man with a pipe notices young Arthur's incredible deductive skills, Arthur's offered a spot at the esteemed Baskerville Hall and a chance to lift his family out of poverty. There Arthur makes quick friends with Irene Eagle, a girl who boldly strides into any adventure, and Jimmie Moriarty, a boy whose brilliance...
3269) Dust child: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Past and present converge in the intertwined stories of an American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man, all of whom are forced to grapple with secrets they kept during and after the Việt Nam War.
3270) Mischling
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It's the fall of 1944 when twelve-year-old twins Pearl and Stasha Zamorski are sent to Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, the sisters take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. Catching the eye of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's infamous "Angel of Death," and becoming part of an experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo,...
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until she commits a deed of great courage and heartbreak. American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific. English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism....
3272) Where waters meet
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller's mother, Rain, didn't live with her. Even when Phoenix got married, Rain, who followed her from China to Toronto, came to share Phoenix's life. Now at the age of eighty-three, Rain's unexpected death ushers in a heartrending separation. Struggling with the loss, Phoenix comes across her mother's suitcase, a memory box Rain had brought from home. Inside, Phoenix finds two old photographs and a decorative...
3275) Eaters of the dead
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
As representative of the ruler of Bagdad, Ahmad Ibn Fadlan accompanies a party of Viking warrriors to the barbaric north, where he witnesses wanton sexuality and cold-blooded human sacrifices.
Author
Series
Wars of the Roses volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Winter 1461--Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian Queen rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warriors from the Scottish Highlands. With the death of York, Margaret and her army seem unstoppable. Yet in killing the father, Margaret has unleashed the sons. Edward of March, now Duke of York, proclaims...
3277) The general and Juila
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption, Grant journeys back in time. He had once been the savior of the Union, the general to whom Lee surrendered at Appomattox, a twice-elected president who fought for the civil...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas tap in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove -- to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife -- that the hours of his life belonged to himself alone. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Saviour, an aging nun, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn...
3280) The heart of Thornewell
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"What should have been a grand adventure in Africa ends in heartbreak for Enid Hawthorne, following her husband's untimely death. Bereft, the young widow bravely boards a ship for home with precious cargo--her unborn child. She hopes to find refuge in England in the only place she can--Thornewell Hall, the estate of her late husband's family. But upon her arrival, she finds a bleak home in the depths of mourning. It is clear that hers is not the only...
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